We are getting ready for a glorious week down the shore. Can't wait.
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Biden's illegal eviction moratorium was, illegal. This week they also ruled the remain in Mexico policy must be reinstated. There will be disappointments from the court, but over the long haul...
That speech yesterday was something. It's perfectly normal for the president to make a speech, eyes bloodshot, iris impossibly large and barely blink, while speaking, two words, at a time, as if someone is relaying those words to him through an earpiece. JFC. The man actually broke down when Fox News' Peter Doocy asked him a tough question. Powerline as is their wont, takes the measure of things perfectly.
Mark Steyn calls this America's Suez moment. This is worse. Is (are?) our ruling class the Bourbons? Romanovs? Maybe they're Jeff Davis attending church just as a messenger from Lee arrives notifying him that the Army of Northern Virginia is retreating from Petersburg, only they stuff the message in their pocket and say, 'Things are fine.' You tell me.
We still have some unread Civil War books from last summer, maybe we'll just bring those to the beach.
Did we write an Afghanistan piece for Inforos? Does our KGB handler have kompromot on us? To ask these questions is to answer them: 'The Biden Administration has been acting like the fall of Kabul was simply a bit of bad news that they had to spin till a new news cycle began. In a press conference last week, President Biden said he hadn’t been criticized by American allies and claimed that al-Qaida was no longer in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida was ‘gone’ in his words. Both statements are demonstrably false. Last June the UN issued a report detailing al-Qaida’s presence in Afghanistan. Biden’s own defense department agrees. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told the press, ‘We know that al-Qaida is a presence, as well as ISIS, in Afghanistan and we've talked about that for quite some time.’ Click it. *
We didn't know how to end the article till we heard about the ISIS suicide bomb. Thanks Joe...I guess. That article would be an interesting writing tutorial. The piece wasn't really going very well. We kept having to update. We seriously considered scrapping it altogether. At first the end was up front and the front was at the end. Only when we reversed did the piece come together. Writing is hard, but fulfilling, one of the reasons why we like cranking out Soviet propaganda.
World War 1990: The Weser is 56,000 words. We need to wrap up the Confederates, write some fill-in scenes, and the opening blockbuster (if necessary). That'll get us to 60,000 +, 65,000? To put it another way, we're real close to The Weser going to the sit phase. That's it. That's the novel.
We admit to being tired. It's been a long distracted week brought on by overwork and lack of sleep.
We haven't looked at The Great Nuclear War of 1975 at all. Once again, we need to finish the Falklands chapter. That's like, two scenes. Maybe three.
Autumn will be the season of World War 1990: The Final Storm. When we get back from the beach we'll dive into the research again. We have a vague sense that The Final Storm is going to be a bog book by necessity. There's a lot to wrap up. 80,000 words?
Idea. The Australian SAS plays a big role in World War 1990: Operation Tet. Why not? Maybe we should bring those Afghan books? [Are you a woman?-Ed] Excuse us while we go take a look out our liberry.
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